Preface

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THE YALE SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
Wilbur L. Cross Tucker Brooke.
Willard Higley Durham
Published under the Direction of THE
Department of English, Yale University, on the Fund
S.rVEN TO THE Y/>LE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 1917 by the Members of the Kingsley Trust Association To Coiojemorate thf Seventy-Fifth AnniversajK
EF THE F MINDING OF THE SOCIETY
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• : The Yale Shakespear e : •
THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY THE FOURTH
EDITED BY
SAMUEL B. HEMINGWAY
NEW HAVEN AND LONDON • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Copyright 1921 by Yale University Press SIXTH PRINTING, AUGUST 1965 Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved to the editorial contributions to this edition, which may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form, except by writ¬ ten permission from the publishers.
Originally published under the direc¬ tion of the Department of English, Yale University, on the fund given to the Yale University Press in 1917 by the members of the Kingsley Trust Association to commemorate the sev¬ enty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the society.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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The Text .
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Notes
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Appendix A.
Sources of the Play
137
Appendix B.
The History of the Play .
146
Appendix C.
The Text of the Present Edi¬
tion ....
151
Appendix D.
Suggestions for Collateral
Reading ....
153
Index of Words Glossed .
154
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[DRAMATIS PERSONAE.]
Rumour, the Presenter King Henry the Fourth
Prince Henry, afterwards crowned King Henry the Fifth Prince John of Lancaster, j Sons to Henry the Fourth, Humphrey of Gloucester, l ana brethren to Henry the Thomas of Clarence, J Fifth
Northumberland,
The Archbishop of Fork,
Mowbray,
Hastings,
Lord Bardolph:,
Travers,
Morton,
Coi.evile,
Warwick,
Westmoreland,
Surrey,
Gower,
Harcourt,
[Blunt],
Lord Chief Justice, .
[, Servant to the Lord Chief Justice ]
Poins, Palstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, Peto, Page, Irregular Humorists
Shallow and Silence, Both Country Justices Davy, servant to Shallow Fang and Snare, two sergeants
Mouldy, Shadow, Wart, Feeble, Bullcalf, Country Soldiers
[Porter at Warkworth Castle]
[Francis, a Drawer]
Drawers, Beadles, Grooms
[Lords and Attendants, Officers and Soldiers]
Northumberland's Wife Percy’s Widow Hostess Quickly Doll Tearsheet Epilogue
Opposites against King Henry the Fourth
Of the King’s Party
Dramatis Personae; cf. App. C Irregular: lawless, unconventional
Opposites; adversaries Drawer: waiter
The Second Pari of King Henry the Fourth
INDUCTION
[W artcworth . Before Northumberland’s Castle ] Enter Rumour , painted full of tongues.
Rum . Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?
I, from the orient to the drooping west.
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold 4
The acts commenced on this ball of earth:
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride.
The which in every language I pronounce.
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 8
I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world:
And who but Rumour, who but only I,
Make fearful musters and prepar’d defence, 12
Whilst the big year, swoln with some other grief,
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war.
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, lg
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it. But what need I thus 20
My well-known body to anatomize
Among my household? Why is Rumour here?
S. d. Enter Rumour, etc.; cf. n. 2 vent: aperture 4 still: always 17 stop: hole in wind instrument by which difference of pitch *4 obtained
2
The Second Part of
I run before King Harry’s victory;
Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury 24
Hath beaten down young Hotspur and hi3 troops,
Quenching the flame of bold rebellion
Even with the rebels’ blood. But what mean I
To speak so true at first? my office is 28
To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell
Under the wrath of noble Hotspur’s sword,
And that the king before the Douglas’ rage Stoop’d his anointed head as low as death. 32
This have I rumour’d through the peasant towns Between the royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm-eaten hole of ragged stone,
Where Hotspur’s father, old Northumberland, 38 Lies crafty-sick. The posts come tiring on,
And not a man of them brings other news Than they have learn’d of me: from Rumour’s tongues They bring smooth comforts false, worse tlian true wrongs. Exit. 40
ACT FIRST
Scene One
[The Same]
Enter Lord Bardolph, at one door.